Economy

Lagos intra-city rail is West Africa’s second urban rail line Lagos Blueline Rail

Lagos intra-city rail is West Africa’s second urban rail line

Phillip Anjorin September 14, 2023

Claim: A Facebook user posted that the recently commissioned intra-city rail in Lagos state is the second...

Image from Dubai portrayed as Nigeria’s road system Dubai

Image from Dubai portrayed as Nigeria’s road system

Cole Praise September 13, 2023

Claim: The image of the highway road is in Nigeria, the giant of Africa. Verdict: FALSE. Google...

True! Liberia exported electricity to Ivory Coast for the first time in July Photograph: Mins. Samuel Tweah (Liberia)

True! Liberia exported electricity to Ivory Coast for the first time in July

Varney Dukuly August 31, 2023

Claim: “Liberia exported electricity for the first time to Cote d’Ivoire,” said Finance Minister Samuel Tweah. Verdict:...

Is Air France exiting Sierra Leone? Here’s all we know

Mohamed Jaward Nyallay July 22, 2023

Social media has gone wild over the last few days, rumouring that one of the carriers to...

Iro àti aṣinilọna ni ìròyìn akálékáko pé ìjọba àpapọ̀ fẹ́ ṣ’àfikún owó oṣù Tinubu, Shettima

Elizabeth Ogunbamowo July 6, 2023

Ahesọ: Ìwé ìròyìn Daily Trust ṣe àgbéjáde ìròyìn kan pé ìjọba àpapọ̀, latarii àjọ tó ń rísí...

Misleading! The Invincible Sports Park was budgeted in 2022 national budget

Jackson C. Clay Jr. June 30, 2023

Claim: Finance and Development Planning Minister Samuel Tweah and Liberia Maritime Authority Commissioner Eugene Lenn Nagbe claimed:...

True, Kenya’s national electricity grid mix is 92% green Ruto

True, Kenya’s national electricity grid mix is 92% green

Ikechukwu Oyemike June 27, 2023

Claim: Kenya’s national electricity grid mix is 92% green. Verdict: TRUE. Kenya’s national electricity grid mix comprises...

Obscene stash of foreign currencies linked to Sudan’s ousted al-Bashir, not Emefiele

Cole Praise June 19, 2023

CLAIM: DSS recovers monies stashed in Emefiele’s house. VERDICT: False. Critical observations and newspaper reports reveal that...

Viral CBN release on policy actions in Foreign Exchange Market, from 2017

Elizabeth Ogunbamowo June 15, 2023

Claim: On Wednesday, June 14, social media users circulated an undated press release from the Central Bank...

Unity Party exited government with 12.4% inflation, not 30% in 2017 Randall Massaquoi Dobayou

Unity Party exited government with 12.4% inflation, not 30% in 2017

Varney Dukuly June 2, 2023

Claim: “When the Unity Party was exiting in 2017, inflation was 30%,” said Randall Dobayou, a stalwart...

Lagos intra-city rail is West Africa’s second urban rail line

Image from Dubai portrayed as Nigeria’s road system

True! Liberia exported electricity to Ivory Coast for the first time in July

Is Air France exiting Sierra Leone? Here’s all we know

Iro àti aṣinilọna ni ìròyìn akálékáko pé ìjọba àpapọ̀ fẹ́ ṣ’àfikún owó oṣù Tinubu, Shettima

Misleading! The Invincible Sports Park was budgeted in 2022 national budget

True, Kenya’s national electricity grid mix is 92% green

Obscene stash of foreign currencies linked to Sudan’s ousted al-Bashir, not Emefiele

Viral CBN release on policy actions in Foreign Exchange Market, from 2017

Unity Party exited government with 12.4% inflation, not 30% in 2017

Economy

Claim coconut water can treat fever in children, misleading

Viral video of “persecuted Christians” in Nigeria, misleading

FALSE! Ivory Coast’s president did not comment on Nigeria’s security

Viral ‘missile-like’ light seen in Sokoto, Kebbi, likely meteor activity